Supplementary knowledge of baby food
Super full baby food supplement knowledge, including time, sequence, production, summarized from Cui Yutao lecture. The essence of Cui Shen's sentence, summed up into one piece is God! Add a complementary theory to your baby This collection is enough!
First, the role of complementary foods
The addition of complementary foods has two functions. First, the added nutrients make up for the deficiency of simple dairy products and promote the healthy growth of children; the second is to train children's gastrointestinal functions, chewing and other physiological functions. The first one is very important. Therefore, the first supplementary food supplement should be related to the child's need for nutrient growth for 4-6 months. For example: iron-rich complementary foods should be added.
Therefore, children should be given iron-rich rice flour and vegetable puree after 4 months. These foods are not only easy to digest but also have better taste and shape. Rice noodles are just the basis, where you can add puree, meat puree, broth, etc., but be careful not to add too much condiment.
As for the ability to exercise children's chewing, it must wait until the child's molars grow. Otherwise, chewing is difficult to complete.
Second, the complementary food added time
Supplementary foods should begin to be added within the period of 4-6 months, and they should begin at the earliest of 4 months (ie, the 5th month). Even if breastmilk is very abundant, supplemental foods should be started within 6 months. Adding food supplements too early can cause problems such as allergies and abnormal bowel movements. Hope that parents believe that their breastmilk nutrition is enough for children to enjoy at least 4-6 months.
Note: 4-6 months for the supplementary food to add the adaptation phase. By implication, do not force your child to eat. Encourage your child to become interested in the diet. Don't force the child to avoid the child's psychological burden.
The World Health Organization recommends infants to add supplementary foods after 6 months because the gastrointestinal tract of young infants is still immature. Premature addition of supplementary foods can cause gastrointestinal allergic reactions. Of course, there is a difference in the development of each child. Children can fully add the conditions for adding complementary foods, but the earliest can not be earlier than 4 months, and the latest can not be later than 8 months.
So, how do you know if your baby meets the conditions for adding food supplements and if you want to add a complementary food?
1, interested in eating for adults;
2. The regularity of feeding, breastfeeding is approximately 4 hours; breastfeeding 8-10 times a day, artificial feeding more than 1000 ml per day will still cry and hungry;
3, frequent nipples or nipples phenomenon; more drooling;
4, body weight is 2 times at birth, low birth weight children reach 6 kilograms, weight for full milk is still not long.
5, a little help can sit up.
Third, the complementary food order
The principle of adding supplementary foods should be gradual. The amount of complementary foods should be gradually increased. The increased indicator is the child's acceptance rather than the parent's subjective intention.
1, after 4 months, the best starting food supplement should be baby nutrition rice noodles (meaning outside the meaning is pure rice flour). Baby nutrition rice noodles is the best first supplementary food, in which calcium, iron, zinc and other nutrients have been fortified, and other complementary foods are not comprehensive. In this way, the child can obtain a relatively balanced nutrient, and the gastrointestinal burden will not be too heavy.
Rice flour is best added before feeding during the day, and once in the afternoon and afternoon, each time two spoonfuls of dry powder (small spoon in a milk powder tank), with warm water and into a paste, feed the baby with a spoon before feeding. Feed your child breastfeeding or formula milk bottle immediately after each meal. Parents must keep in mind that every time they eat, they must feed their children, so that the child’s eating habits will not form a habit of eating small meals. After the child eats the complementary food, provide the child with milk again until the child does not drink. Of course, if the child no longer drinks milk after eating the complementary food, it means that the child has already eaten. After the child tolerates this amount, rice flour can be gradually added.
2. After 6 months, the children can add some vegetable puree. (About 2-3 weeks after the child is able to tolerate rice flour, add a little vegetable puree.)
3, 7-8 months after the start can add egg yolk, meat mud. Fish soup should be later to prevent allergies.
4, about 10 months of the child can be two full complementary feeding.
Fourth, simple production of vegetables
The simple method of vegetables: Wash the vegetables into boiling water about 1-2 minutes after the removal, and then stir into a puree, add rice flour, mixed and fed to the children together. It is best to choose the leaves of the green dish. In addition, potatoes, squash, etc. can also be steamed into mud and mixed in rice flour to feed children.
Pay attention to the practice of carrots: Cut the washed carrots into large pieces, fry them with a little hot oil, and steam them into the steamer to make them mud. In this way, during the steaming process, the oil is combined with carotene to ensure that the body absorbs enough carotene after taking it.
Five, infant nutrition (including supplementary food) FAQ
1 The baby's first complementary food is no longer an egg yolk?
The iron-enriched egg yolk is the best choice. It is actually a past statement. It is now easier for children to absorb, and the iron-rich food supplement should be baby nutrition rice noodles. Because egg yolk contains not only iron but also some macromolecular proteins, it can cause problems for the child to absorb and digest, such as constipation. In addition, the yolk tastes flat and dry, which is easy to cause children to resent. Children do not like to eat yolk is a completely understandable thing.
Compared with egg yolks, the taste and shape of fruit or vegetable puree are easily accepted by children. Egg yolk is no longer the first baby food supplement, and the current baby nutrition rice noodles is. Because it contains more nutrients than egg yolks, the chance of allergies, constipation, and other adverse reactions may be much smaller than the yolk. Even so, we also recommend that children add food supplements within 4-6 months.
2 Do you add rice soup and porridge?
Rice soup and porridge nutrition is very limited, it is best to add baby nutrition rice noodles. Rice soup will affect the baby's feeding.
3 How to add fruit/juice/mud, vegetable water/juice/mud?
Juice contains very good nutrition, but it is difficult for children who are accustomed to juice to receive white water, which is not conducive to oral cleaning. It is recommended that children add fruit puree after 4 months. Change fruit juice to puree and encourage children to drink white water. There is no "hungry thirst therapy" to induce children to drink water. Take every opportunity to give your child white water. (The freshly-squeezed apple is a little thick and should be filled with water. Freshly-squeezed carrot water is not nutritious. Because carotenoids need to be absorbed by oil as a medium. Recommendation: Cut carrots into large chunks in hot oil. Fry in the proper way, put it in a steamer and steam it into a pureed form. Feed it to your child as part of the food supplement.)
Puree is added between meals. Puree is best not to be mixed with food supplements and fed between meals. Fruit puree should be added between meals. The taste of the selected fruit should not be too heavy, so as to avoid dependence on the child's taste, and milk and rice flour appear. Four-month-old children can eat puree.
The nutritional value of vegetable water is minimal, mainly vegetable pigments. I don't think it necessary to add. After the same food is added, consider adding vegetable puree.
4 When can a child add salt?
In theory, it should be after 1 year old. Even then, it is only a very small amount. For the baby is not interested in complementary food, it may not be a child's problem, it should be mainly due to adult errors. For example: early start to add juice; adult children eat some adult food; give children frequent health care products or unnecessary drugs (calcium, protein powder, bovine colostrum, etc.). This can induce the child's taste development to develop prematurely, causing the child to appear uninterested in formula or conventional supplements (rice flour, etc.). It is suggested that parents should start from ordinary feeding and life, and do not add salt and other condiments to children too early. Premature and excessive salt intake can cause children to develop high blood pressure and other diseases during adulthood.
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